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Brave Faces

Transcribed by Owen Thomas

This is the studio version, but it's virtually identical to 
the live versions i've heard.  Unfortunately, the solo was a little 
beyond me.

First, the nitty-gritty

verse rhythm:

straight 8ths  

    |   B5       B5maj7   B5    |  etc.
pm. |   ^        ^        ^     |
    |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
    |   /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  |
    |                           |
 
Bridge:
   F (8 times)  E (4 times with arps)     
e||-----------|--------------------------||
B||-----------|--------------------------||
G||-----------|--------------------------||
D||-----------|----------------6b7-7r6-4-||
A||-----------|--------------------------||
E||-----------|--------------------------||
                                     
CHORUS:

   F#m             D               Am              Am/F#            
e||-------2-------|-------2-------|---------------|--------------|
B||-----2---2-----|-----3---3-----|-----0-1-0-----|-----0-1-0----|
G||---2-------2---|---2-------2---|-----------2---|------------0-|
D||-4-----------4-|-0-----------0-|---2---------2-|---2----------|
A||---------------|---------------|-0-------------|--------------|
E||---------------|---------------|---------------|-2------------|
    1 + 2 +3+ 4 +   1 + 2 +3+ 4 +   1 + 2 +3+ 4 +   1 + 2 +3+4 + 

  B5               Db5               Eb                 D            
e|--------2-------|---------2-------|---------2--------|------------|
B|------2---2-----|-------2---2-----|-------2---2------|------------|
G|----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2----|------------|
D|-/4-----------4-|--/3-----------3-|--/4-----------4--|--7-5-4-----|
A|----------------|-----------------|------------------|------------|
E|----------------|-----------------|------------------|------------|
rhythm cont. as above

   C
e|--------|--------||
B|--------|--------||
G|--------|--------||
D|--------|--------||
A|--------|--------||
E|--------|--------||

Rhythm Fig. 1   (bass & gtr)

   Em                                  F#m
e||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A||-------2-3---2---|-------2-3---2---|-----0-4-5---4-0-|-----0-4-5---4-0-|
E||---0-3---------3-|-0---3---------3-|---2-------------|-2---------------|
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

  D                   A                     
e|---------|---------|----------|---------||
B|---------|---------|----------|---------||
G|---------|---------|----------|---------||
D|---------|---------|----------|---------||
A|---------|---------|----------|---------||
E|---------|---------|----------|---------||

Rhythm Fig.2
chords tacet

e||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
B||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
G||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
D||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
A||-------2---------|-------2-5-5-4-2-|-4-4-2-0-3-3-2-0-||
E||-0-0-3---0-----0-|---0-3-----------|-----------------||
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   

Arpeggios played during Rhythm Fig. 2

e|-------------|--------------------|
B|-------------|--------------------|
G|--------9----|-------------12-----|
D|------9------|-----------9--------|
A|---10--------|--------10----------|
E|-------------|--------------------|


Rhythm fig. 3

 Em                         F#m                     D     D     A     A      
e|------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----|-----|-----|----||
B|------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----|-----|-----|----||
G|------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----|-----|-----|----||
D|------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----|-----|-----|----||
A|-------2----|--------2----|-----0-4---|-----0-4---|-----|-----|-----|----||
E|-0-0-3---0--|--0-0-3---0--|-2-2-----2-|-2-2-----2-|-----|-----|-----|----||
 1+2+ 3 + 4 +  1+2+ 3 + 4 +
                                                                              
Chords

e|---------------------------------2---2---0---0------0---1---0--
B|---------------------------------2---3---1---1------2---1---0--
G|-4-----3-------6----8---7--------2---2---2---2------2---2---1--
D|-4-----4-------6----8---7--------4---0---2---2------2---3---2--
A|-2-----2-------4----6---5--------4-------0---X------0---3---2--
E|---------------------------------2-----------2----------1---0--
 | B5  B5maj7   Db5  Eb5  D5      F#m  D   Am  Am/F#  A   F   E                        
  similar for C5, C5maj7 etc.

INTRO

||:B5  B%maj7   B5  :||  4 times

VERSE 1
  ____________
|1,2,3,4.
||: B5  B5maj7 B5   |Db5            |B5  B5maj7 B5    |Db5            |
           I've seen faces in the window       I've seen faces in the 
	   
                                          _____________
                                         |5.
  |Eb              |D5     D5maj7   D5 :||Em           |             |
  |                |                   :||Rthm Fig 1   |             |
street         they talk and walk of nothing...

 
|F#m               |F#m                |D            |D                |
                                            They're all talkin' shit to

                                          
                            VERSE 2 _________________
                                   |1,2.
|A               |A                ||: B5  B5maj7 B5  |Db5               |
   me                                              out-talked by the mass-


| B5  B5maj7 B5  |Db                |Eb5         | D5     D5maj7   D5     :||
  media     to    pay the bills it lies    and the lies we eat with breakfast


|Em              |                |F#m            |                |
|Rhythm Fig. 1   |                |               |                |
                              and they've got those tears in their eyes


|D               |                |A             |               ||
    Well it  makes  no  sense  to  me

                                                    
  _______________                            BRIDGE _______________
 |1,2,3,4.                                         |5.
||: Rhythm Fig.2 |                |              :||F              |
||with vox adlib |                |               ||               |


 |F              |F               |F               |F              |
                                                       Why don't they

 |F              |F               |F               |E              |
    understand                                            We're so

 |E              |E               |E               ||
  ordinary too

    CHORUS
||F#m            |D               |Am              |Am/F#          |


 |B5             |Db5             |Eb5             |D5             |


                                    ________________
                                   |1,2.                
 |C              |C               ||: C5  C5maj7  C5 |D5            |


 | C5  C5maj7  C5 |D5               |E5             |Eb  Eb5maj7  Eb  :||

   ___________
 ||3.
 ||Em           |Em           |F#m          |F#m          |D           |  
 ||Rhythm Fig.3 |             |             |             |            |


 |             |A            |             ||F           |F           |

                               CHORUS 2 
 |F            |F            ||F#m          |D           |Am          |


 |Am/F#        |B5           |Db5           |Eb5         |D5          ||
  
 
 |C            |             |              ||


||Rhythm fig.2   repeat till fade with adlib gtr solo



LYRICS:

[Verse 1]:
I've known many restless summers, sand dunes I imagine
a place without a postcard
flower people were so beautiful, but straight and loud's the way
good luck the beatnik spirit
the talk of politicians, the sentences of cynics 
are the sentences of childhood

They're all talking shit to me

[Verse 2]:
Out-talked by the mass-media to pay the bills it lies
and the lies we eat with breakfast
brave faces face the boardroom, the oak-stained walls fall silent
they leave lined with defeat

and they got those tears (tills?) in their eyes
well it makes no sense to me

[vocal adlib:]
when we danced, when we danced, all night, all the night
you saw me, I looked right
I was the one with my head in the clouds,
up and down, round and round

Why don't they understand?  We're so ordinary too.

[Chorus]:
I saw the exits closing now
pain and passion, my point of view (oh yeah)
well there's nothing but the truth (oh yeah)

[Verse 3]:
I've seen men that have been marked out, ruled out by grim assassins
they fell hard on instant replay
and I'm never going there, no I'm never going there,
well the place I see's so much better (so much better)

get it high, get it low

cos it makes no sense to me 

[Chorus]:
I saw the exits closing now
burning mountains, burning paper, burning all around and later


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